House Intelligence Committee reaches an agreement with Fusion GPS for its bank records

A couple of weeks ago representatives for Fusion GPS appeared before the Congress and took the Fifth, shortly thereafter the group filed an injunction to block the Congress from gaining access to its financial records.

Today the House Intelligence Committee announced it has reached a deal with Fusion GPS to gain access to those closely guarded financial records, here is more:

The House Intelligence Committee said Saturday it has struck a deal to gain access to bank records from Fusion GPS, the firm behind the salacious anti-Trump dossier.

The company had recently attempted to block the committee’s subpoena for its banking records.

“The parties have reached an agreement related to the House Intelligence Committee’s subpoena for Fusion GPS’s bank records that will secure the Committee’s access to the records necessary for its investigation,” the intelligence committee said in a statement released Saturday.

Last week it was reported that the Washington Free Beacon funded Fusion GPS and hired the group to do opposition research on several Republican candidates during the 2016 election. When the Free Beacon decided to drop the project the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign picked up the funding and at that point Fusion GPS hired a foreign spy with ties to Russia and produced the now mostly discredited Russian dossier.

Knowing what we know now it is hard to see what can be gained from striking this deal, and I wonder if Fusion GPS would have agreed to this deal if the details did not already leak to the public, but still I think (not knowing what exactly the deal entails) this deal had to be made so we can maybe get to the bottom of this. The American people deserve to know if the Democratic party was colluding with the Russians during the 2016 campaign.